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GAINESVILLE — Frank Pres-
tage, 51. truck driver for a mill-
ing company, was found acci-
dentally shot to death here today.
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NEW YORK — The TV Emmy
Award ceremonies tonight will
be picketed by technicians en-
gaged in a dispute with the Na-
tion Broadcasting Co., a union
official said today.
CLARKSVILLE, Tex. — Wil-
liam Alvin Jackson, 3, died last
night after a pickup truck ran
over him.
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WASHINGTON — Gen. Laur-
ence S. Kuter today was named
commander in chief of the North
American Air Defense Command,
effective July 31.
Council Ledivt
Swimming Pools
The City Council in regular
meeting Tuesday night award-
ed leases for the two city-owned
swimming pools for the coming
summer season.
Bill Ellis Jr. received a re-
newal of his lease for operation
of Dellwood Park pool, and El-
bert Black was again awarded
the lease of Oaklawn Park pool.
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ty-haired girl admitted kidniping
18-month-old boy from his
home near Albuqureque, N. M.,
Monday, then abandoning him
this morning in a downtown
Dallas drug store.
The girl, Betty Smithey. 18, a
reform school inmate employed
DR. PALMORE CURREY
. . . Honored in prafs—isa
Practitioners.
“I was overwhelmed when I
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REACH AGREEMENT
NEW YORK I The Internation-
al Ladles Garment Workers Union
has reached an agreement with the
women's and children's coat and
suit industry covering 80,000 work-
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By The Amocated Press
NEW YORK — The chief ne-
gotiator for the steel industry
said today the industry is con-
sidering a mutual assistance plan
to share profits if one or more
companies are shut down by a
strike, instead of the entire in-
dustry being struck.
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AUSTIN — Proponents and op-
ponents of a controversial milk
bill today crowded Capitol corri-
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Negro Coed
Tells of Rape
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. UP — A
19-year-old Negro coed from Flor-
ida A&M University told a spe-
cially summoned Leon County
grand jury today her story of
being seized at gunpoint and
raped by four young white men.
The girl was brought to the
courthouse by sheriff’s deputies
from University Hospital. where
she has been kept under sedation
since the attack last Saturday.
She wax before the grand Jury
less than half an hour.
She was attended by a nurse,
the hospital administration, her
mother and brother. Her home
is in Tallahassee.
Sheriff Bill Joyce informed
newsmen about her appearance
before the jury. Several other
witnesses preceded her into the
grand jury room.
Circuit Court Judge W. May
Walker told the 18-member all-
male jury it was "to function
without regard to race, color or
creed according to the law ap-
plicable to the case."
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As for the marigold, another contender n the floral derby: "Its
a good-looking bath sponge," Douglas conceded.
Sen. Thurston Morton (R-Ky), who is committed to just plain
grass, perferably Kentucky grass, ploughed under the com tassel:
"a purely male plant. What are we going to do—lose the women's
vote?
Sen. Hugh Scott R-Pa), who wouldn't hear a word against roses
stomped in turn on Morton's reveries of bluegrass.
"I don't think he should be so cud-happy," Scott complained.
And he fired back at corn-pusher Douglas, who showered Capi-
tol Hill with a virtual snowstorm of popcorn all day.
"I suggest that the' amount of. corn on Capitol Hitt is already
sufficient," Scott said.
This all came about because a garden club in suburban Falls
Church, Va., heard about the national flower debate and got into
the act. It borrowed the Senate caucus room and invited the legis-
lators to hold forth on the merits of their choices.
Sometime the Congress will get around to declaring a national
flower. .
Maybe.
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Senate Passes Off
Tax Bill Hearing
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ONTARIO, Calif. — Two gun-
men kidnaped a bank manager
and his wife today, and robbed
the Bank of America of an esti-
mated $60,000 to $70,000, police
said.
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DALLAS
Dr. Currey, who came to Mount
Pleasant in IMS, is a native of
Cass County. He attended schools
in Cass County before going to
East Texas State College where
he received a B. S. degree. He
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MT. PLEASANT, TEXAS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1959
•emmemeeme
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Cooperation
BidtoU.N.--
Space Group
UNITED NATIONS. N.Y.-
The United States told a Soviet
boycotted U N. committee today
that the world can expect great
things from earth satellites in the
fairly near future if every nation
cooperates in exploring space.
“In no field of endeavor is co-
operation among nations more ap-
propriate or more necessary,"
U.S. Dalegate Henry Cabot Lodge
said in the organization meeting
of the U.N. Committeeion Peace-
ful Uses of Outer Space.
“The job is far too big for any
one nation, no matter how big or
how advanced in technology that
nation may be. Every nation has
a part to play and all peoples
stand to gain from the results."
Lodge did not mention the boy-
cott of the 18-member committee
by the Soviet Union.
Delegates of four other mem-
ber* also stayed away. These
were Communist Czecholovakia
and Poland, which backed a So-,
viet charge that there are too
many Westerners on the commit-
tee; and India and the United
Arab Republic,' which said that
to meet now serves no useful
purpose. Representatives of all
the other 13 were on hand.
Lodge said that, with full in-
HOUSTON — The president of
the embattled Aldine School
Board said today he has decided
not. to file charges against a
minority board member.
LULU" IS BACK HOME AGAIN — Here’s a happy end-
ing to the case of the missing chimpanzee. That’s Michael
Blanchet, 4, watching over Lulu, a big-eared, year-old
African chimpanzee, after the pet was returned home
Lulu was taken from. Michael's father’s Oakland, Calif,
pet shop in a burglary last March 29. Police traced the
chimp through finger and footprints to a pet shop in Glen-
dale and Michael’s father claimed the pet.
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A jury in 76th District Court
Tuesday was dismissed by Judge
Morris Rolston after failing to
reach a verdict in the trial of
Aree Walker on burglary charges.
It received the case at 8:30
p.m. Monday and was dismissed
at 4:40 p.m. Tuesday when they
reported that it was deadlocked
at 11-1 in favor of conviction.
In other actions of the Court
Tuesday six pleas of guilty were
accepted.
Dewey Davis was fined $200
and costs for unlawful posses-
sion of alcoholic beverage.
Clifton Ford, Negro, received
a two-year suspended sentence
for murder without malice. The
charges- grew out of an automo-
bile accident in January, 1958 on
the Monticello Road in which
Frank McCann received fatal
injuries.
Otha Whaley, Negro, was as-
sessed a fine of $50 and costs
fof aggravated assault.
Douglas Spraglin, Negro, was
given a two-year probated sen-
tence on a second conviction for
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W. L. Carr was fined $50 and
costs on charges of assault to
murder.
University of Southern California.
He studied for professional train-
at the College of Osteopathy and
Surgery, Kirksvllle, Mo., and
interned at Amarillo and at the
Kirksville College.
He opened Currey Clinic here
in December, 1849.
Dr. Currey is past president of
the East Texas district of osteo-
baths, a past president of the Tex-
as Osteopathic Hospital Associa-
tion and is now serving as a di-
rector on the National Board of .
Osteopathic Hospitals.
Prior to moving to Mount
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Hall Is Accepted
At Rice Institute
Milton Hall, valedictorian of
the 1959 Mount Pleasant High
ISthool graduating class, has been
accepted for entrance at the Rice
Thistitute, Houston. '
Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. I.
Hall, .1410 Delafield, received
•Word of his acceptance Wednes-
day.
DALLAS IB — Nervous, strin- > by the school's former psycholo-
gist as a baby sitter, was arrest-
ed by two Dallas patrolmen min-
utes after she fled the drug store.
The baby, Mitchell Johnson,
who could be mistaken for a girl
because of his long blond hair,
appeared healthy and unharmed.
Biting her fingernails nervous-
ly, the young abductor said, "I
don’t know why I did it I just
took if
The girl said she took the boy
from die home of his parents, Mr.
and Mr*. Paul Johnson, Monday
afternoon. They live in Placitas,
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Dr. Palmore Currey, Mount
Pleasant osteopath, has been
named as Texas' General Osteo-
pathic Practitioner of the Year.
The announcement was made
Friday night at the annual con-
vention of the Texas Society of
General Practitioners in Osteopa-
thy, Medicine and Surgery.
The award—a bronze plaque—
will be presented when the East
Texas district of the osteopath
body meets in Tyler May 17.
Dr. Currey was chosen by more
than 200 osteopathmembers over
the state for “outstanding com-
munity and professional service,"
said Dr. C. C. Rahm, secretary
of the state organization.
Dr. Currey was unable to at-
tend the Friday convention be-
cause of a recent fire at his
osteopath clinic at 901 N. Jeffer-
son.
The osteopathic organization is
comparable to the medical doc-
ternational cooperation, earth
satellites in the fairly near future
could:
I. Scan the whole earth for
weather data and make fore-
casts possibly weeks in advance;
1.2. Become reflectors and repeat-
ing stations for radio messages
ind perhaps be used for inter-
continental TV;_______________________________________
-3. Gain geographic details for
wapping unexplored lands, and
-4. Possibly enable ships, by
tracking satellite radio signals, to
"eylculate their positions within
Ites than a mile in any weather.
Scientists, he added, hope to set
up an astronomical telescope in
. outer space to view the stars
Jithout atmospheric fistortion.
District V Agents
To Study Slides
Jack Sloan, extension visual
aids specialist of College Station,
will conduct a meeting Thursday
in Mount Pleasant for county
agents in District V in the use
of the 35 mm camera and the
making of slides and other visual
aids materials, District Agent J.
S. Surovik said Wednesday.
Agents of the 19 counties of the
district will convene in the Coun-
cil Room of city hall at 9:30 a m.
for the training session, which
will be directed by Surovik and
Mrs. Gladys D. Kolander, dis-
trict home demonstration agent.
shrugged off another scheduled
tax bill hearing today by schedul-
ing an afternoon session.
For the second consecutive day
the too-short tax measure was
pushed aside. This was addition-
al evidence that-any hope of even
doing spade work on a revenue
measure before the session ends
Tuesday has been abandoned.
The Senate State Affairs Com-
mittee had set a hearing far 2:30
p.m. on the proposed franchise tax
increase. \
In the House, lawmakers strug-
gled to push their pet measures
into priority positions for debate
and action before rigid session-
ending rules kill them.' In most
instances, efforts to force consid-
eration failed.
With almost nothing accom-
plished, the House also recessed
for an afternoon session.
Two bills to boost Senate ma-
oority leader Lyndon B Johnson
as a possible presidentiaT candi*
date were in Gov. Price Daniel's
hands after final passage yester-
day.
One pushing back the dates of
the Democratic primaries 11
weeks easily survived a four and
a half hour filibuster in the Senate
last night. The House measure, at-
LUBBOCK — Mrs. Guy Craw-
ford of Borger was named to-
day the “State Club Woman of
Texas." Her selection was an-
nounced at the convention of Tex-
as as Federation of Women'*
Clubs.
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did mat graduate study at South-
ern Methodist University and the
a mountain village 20 miles
northeast of Albuquerque.
Mrs. Johnson, former psycholo-
gist at Girls Welfare Home, had
employed Betty after she came
to the home as a runaway from
the home of her sister, Vicki
Wilson, of Chandler, Ariz.
The relieved mother expressed
compassion for the confused girl
after being told of her arrest.
"Its tragic . . . she's basically
honest," she said.
The girl said she had planned
an escape from the Johnson home
and that she thought if she took
the child, it wouldn't cry and
give an alarm.
Besides, she said, she liked him.
She said when she walked out,
they started hitchhiking.
A truck driver on U.S. 06 gave
her 814 after taking her and the
baby to Woodward, Okla., Mon-
day night, Betty related.
With this, she fed Mitchell milk
and soup. * > a» . a
Meanwhile, FBI Agents had
launched a three-state search.
Betty took a bus to Dallas yes-
terday afternoon, She remember-
ed, and arrived here about mid-
night and stayed with the baby
in a hotel room.
She has been here before and
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c,rep,. Aaom c.m2, was told that I had received this
Texas Academy of GemL honor," Dr Currey said.--.
Rendnzs Oourteny Hota Stephene
' East- Texas: Mostly cloudy
through Thursday with scattered
mostly afternoon and evening show-
ers and thunderstorms. No im-
portant temperature changes.
Mon Slays Woman
With Rifle Fire
BEAUMONT I — Two women
were killed by rifle fire at an
apartment house here yesterday
and police quickly arrested the
man who says he fired the fatal
shots.
The man, father of a loeat po-
liceman, was quoted by polce as
saying he killed the two women
because one had him arrested and
both laughed at him when he was
jailed.
PAYING BILL8?—Use our 1st /
National Bank checking account.
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Solons Differ
- WASHINGTON i--Arose is a rose Is a carnation is a com
tassel, or why does this grass smell so sweet, and how did those
matigold get in hare?
Something line this aroma of confusion arose from the Senate
Office Building today in the wake—and there were enough floral
displays for a dozen wakes—of a mock hearing on a question which
stirs many a gardner: What should be the U. S. national flower?
ra Three senators and a House member took part in the debate.
You never saw such furious lobbying, Carnations were pinned on
you when you entered, whether you liked it or not. Popcorn--
a symbol of the com tassel, seed—flowed like taxpayers’ money.
• - Carnations are the moat practical for corsages, contended Rep.
William H. Ayres (R-Ohio), and besides the rose is often tied in
With trouble. Tis frequent in a flower store, he said, that "a man
comes in and says 'give me a dozen roses quick. Mama's mad
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""Then rose Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill), a diehard supporter of the
corn tassel as the American flower.
C Distinctively American in origin," sajd the senator, senatorialy.
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SITUATION IN HAND — Sir Winston Churchill has his hands full as he rides
with President Eisenhower from the Wash ingten National Airport to the White House
in the presidential bubbletop limousine. The cane Churchih is holding along with his
hat and glasses, is a gold-tipped one. The s hadow on Eisenhower’s face is from one of
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Eddie, Elizabeth
Set Wedding Date
HOLLYWOOD u — Eddie
Fisher says he and Elizabeth
Taylor will marry in Las Vegas,
Nev., next Tuesday with Michael
Todd, Jr. serving as best man.
Fisher said the two had planned
to marry the 14th.
uenvece l sAuEs
HOfiR s.
Key Club Sponsors
Beauty Contentant
Genie Hoffmann, 17-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C.
Hoffmann. 208 Chester, Wednes-
day became the 17th contestant
in the Miss Mount Pleasant-Miss
Dellwood beauty contest.
Genie will be iponMrtd by the
Mount Pleasant High Key Club
in the June 2 Splash Day page-
ant. -
A senior at MPHS, she is a
member of the a cappella choir,
girls quartet, cheerleader, was
a football and basketball princess,
and is Key Club Sweetheart.
Deadline for entries in the
contest is May 12. says the
Chamber of Commerce.
AAAt. AAleasant Aailp Cimes
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Disregards
Walkout of
1 Members
, LITTLE ROCK, Ark. u — The
Little Rock School Board’s three
unyielding segregationists Tues-
day disregarded a walkout by three
moderate members and vqted to
fire 44 teachers in the city’s in-
tegregation-troubled school sys-
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Twenty-six of those whose con-
tracts would not be renewed are
employed at the closed Central
High School where a handful of
Negroes attended under protec-
tion of federal troops in 1987-88.
The moderates—Ted Lamb, Rus-
sell Matson and Everett Tucker
Jr.,—left a board meeting called
to consider teacher contracts af-
ter announcing they would voe to
rehire all or none of the system's
800 teachers. They said they
would consider any action by the
remaining members as illegal for
lack of a quorum.
Lamb later said Tuesday’s de-
cisions would be challenged in
court. Lamb said the trio had a-
donted the "all or none" atitude
because they feared a purge by
the segregationists. He said they
waated to strip the system of
teachers so none would be avail-
able to operate the city’s four
clemed high schools if federal
courts ordered them re-opened on
an integrated basis.
Among those to be fired are the
top officials at Central—Principal
J. W. Matthews and Vice Princi-
pals J. O. Powell and Mrs. Eliza-
beth Huckaby. Gov. Orval E.
Faubus, who shut the high schools
against integration Sept.. 12, has
criticized these three for "show-
ing favoritism to Negro students"
while Central was integrated.
date tor ’help,' was not amended
in the Senate. It was finally passed
on a voice vote, with five senators
recording I "no." It passed the
House 97-44.
Friends of Johnson said they fa-
vored the primarybill because it
would allow the senator, if he
wishes, to seek and perhaps nail
down his bid for renomination be-
fore the July presidential conven-
tion. They said it would give him
prestige and also be a boon if he
wishd to make a national cam-
paign.
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